He stared, mouth agape, at the barren asphalt. It was like a violation. Like someone had come into his home and… well, and *stolen* something. He balled his fists, the knuckles turning white.

“Un-fucking-believable,” he whispered, the words barely audible. The neatly manicured lawn, the meticulously trimmed hedges – all of it seemed to mock him with its quiet orderliness. The only thing missing was his car.

The phone rang. It was his wife. He ignored it. He was not in the mood for pleasantries. Not today.

Emotion: contemptuous

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.40 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion contemptuous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 contemptuous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the contemptuous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the contemptuous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.502
l0.423
fact0.287
either0.265
👎0.262
Suppressed:
own-0.367
unexpectedly-0.303
serendip-0.265
Suddenly-0.253
previously-0.250